Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…
so the King said he could only bring stuff that's not alive, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, stuff · What happens: say, bring, not be · To what, where: stuff · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 alive | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 alive | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 alive | advmod |
| 13 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stuff | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 alive | punct |
| 15 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 8 bring | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | could | King | stuff | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | stuff | alive property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, inanimate things only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 things | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 3 | inanimate | inanimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 things | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, he could bring his mom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | could | he | his mom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mom=Destination |
Option 3
nah, he could bring his horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | could | he | his horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination |
Option 4
nah, he could bring friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | could | he | friends | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination |
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